Senior IT Manager

Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a privately held company with a proven track record of developing and deploying innovative products that successfully operate in the most extreme environments.

We are a fast-growing Southern California technology innovator that solves tough, mission-critical challenges for our customers in the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets.

We design, develop, and manufacture advanced products for ground, maritime, and airborne applications.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior IT Manager to lead our network infrastructure, oversee our cybersecurity compliance program, and drive the enterprise AI capability that is changing how our engineers, program managers, and back-office teams work.

This is a hands-on leadership role at an inflection point: we are executing toward CMMC Level 2 while simultaneously deploying a two-tier AI architecture that lets the business move fast on unrestricted work without ever putting controlled data  goal is to deliver excellent, responsive service to our employees and to operate a stable, secure environment worthy of the sensitive information our customers entrust to us.

Torrance, CA 90501 (On-site)

• Strategic Planning:
  Develop and execute a strategic IT roadmap that aligns with our organizational objectives, fostering innovation and growth.
• Oversee the department budget and make cost-effective decisions to meet business needs.
• Own vendor management and accountability, including cloud and managed service providers supporting controlled environments.
• Perform special IT projects and system integrations/installations that improve access to information and decrease administrative costs across the organization.
• Flexible working hours: availability to respond to urgent system needs and maintain IT services at times that minimize impact to the operation.
• Manage IT staff to achieve business results through communicating job expectations, monitoring, and coaching employees.
• Lead by example and stay hands-on in the day-to-day operation.

• Ensure our IT infrastructure (network and IT systems) will support scalability.
• Build and maintain a business recovery plan, ensuring we can bounce back swiftly from IT interruptions.
• Own network and system performance.
• Establish and maintain a schedule of system maintenance and software updates.
• Maintain recovery and restoration procedures, in conjunction with backup management and incident management.
• Lead the administration, configuration, and maintenance of the SharePoint/Microsoft 365 environment, ensuring optimal performance, security, and accessibility — including the boundary between our general-use and controlled environments.
• Maintain and enforce the technical separation between systems that may process CUI, ITAR, and EAR-controlled technical data and those that may not.

• Administer and scale our commercial AI platform for unrestricted business and engineering work — user provisioning, single sign-on, license management, usage monitoring, and support.
• Administer and scale our government-cloud AI environment (FedRAMP High / Gov Cloud-hosted models) approved for work involving CUI and ITAR/EAR-controlled technical data, including US-person access controls, logging, and retention.
• Enforce the routing rules that keep data in the correct tier: data-marking-driven controls, DLP policies tuned to CUI and export-controlled content, egress monitoring, and clear guardrails at the point of use.
• Partner with Security, Export Compliance, and Legal to maintain the acceptable-use policy, model and tool approval process, and audit evidence for AI systems.
• Evaluate emerging AI tooling and integrations against our compliance boundary, and give the business a fast, honest answer on what can be adopted, where, and under what conditions.
• Train and support employees so the right tier is the easy tier to use.

• Drive our path to CMMC Level 2: maintain the System Security Plan, close POA&M items, keep our SPRS score current, and prepare the organization for assessment readiness.
• Implement and sustain the NIST SP 800-171…